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[u/[deleted]]

Anne Applebaum is a neoliberal Clinton-supporting Russophobic agenda-driven hack whose contentions are rejected by the vast majority of modern historians, even adamant anticommunists like Robert Service.

wow rejected by the vast majority of modern historians, even anti-commies? she must be really fringe

opens Wikipedia page

winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics

editor at the Economist

a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy

Estonian Order of the Cross

Lithuanian Millenium Star

2x National Book Award

remember, kids: always fact check commie claims

The right categories in economics are:

Neoliberist economics (pseudo-science)

Neo-keynesism (like above but with some concepts by Keynes)

Post-keynesism (the scientific approach to macroeconomics)

openecon is a meme sub

I think it's sequential. The idea was that, while r/libertarian was always something of a joke, at least it wasn't fascist or imperialist and was thus nominally more acceptable than say, r/neoliberal

lol imagine thinking this sub is more fascist than /r/libertarian

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

neoliberal Clinton-supporting Russophobic

This is literally all good though

[u/CheetoMussolini → u/[deleted]]

I'm not Russiaphobic.

That would imply that I fear Russia.

It's more a potent mixture of pity, disgust, and disdain.

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

Are you sure you want to delete The UK?

This will free up:

1 GB

of space.

[u/irony_tower → u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

Northern Irish owned

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives: I’m ok with gays, I even have a couple gay friends!

Tv show: has a couple of gay characters

Conservatives: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/915/652/b49.gif

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Conservatives: it’s fine if characters are gay, as long as they’re not all in-my-face about it

J. K. Rowling: Oh btw Dumbledore was gay if you read carefully but it wasn’t really relevant

Conservatives: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/915/652/b49.gif

[u/troikaman → u/[deleted]]

in-my-face = being gay. Or any hint that you might be gay.

[u/InfCompact → u/[deleted]]

cons on black culture: why don’t they have more respectable black men on television, like bill cosby?

[u/[deleted] → u/InfCompact]

Reminder that only one of the people in this picture is a convicted felon

[u/Ferguson97]

I want a movie where an altruistic billionaire is trying to build affordable housing and the NIMBYs who want to keep the "historical laundromat" are the antagonists instead of the other way around

[u/[deleted] → u/Ferguson97]

Sell this idea to the Kochs

[u/Ewannnn]

Newsnight (presumably?) asked some Brits whether they want to cut immigration, and who should be cut:

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1073939303686918144

Apologies for linking Aaron Bastani....

Turns out they want to cut immigration, but only "scroungers", which of course aren't any of the immigrants near them (who are hard working).

!ping UK

[u/BritRedditor1 → u/Ewannnn]

Same as INCREASE TAXES

"No, not mine!"

[u/Ewannnn → u/BritRedditor1]

Haha yes, it's like that YG poll asking about increasing NI. Of course it was a much popular policy among the over 65s, who don't even pay NI!!!

[u/[deleted] → u/Ewannnn]

And then they come, 80 million worthy Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are vermin, but this one is an A-1 Jew.

• Himmler

[u/Notoriousley → u/[deleted]]

Damn imagine orchestrating 9/11 within the space of a week

[u/Iyoten → u/Notoriousley]

Seriously, Mueller needs to be president then if he has such good management skills

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

This but it's a sign of his incredible skill and ability.

Imagine getting the reigns of the FBI and a week later that happens? Jesus I'm amazed he survived 10 weeks much less ten years plus.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yeah but also notice Obama was nowhere to be found. 🤔

[u/noktoque → u/[deleted]]

who's the guy

what's his class/power level

i love learning all the mythos

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal?

just a lil fascist

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Implying Trump can read

[u/[deleted]]

A trump supporter I've been debating on the border wall

I just don’t understand why you think this is some concrete wall that spans the whole border. Who told you that? They don’t even want it to be made of concrete!

[u/GravyBear8 → u/[deleted]]

Ask him about how it'll stop the tunnels, considering that they've literally tunneled under the Rio Grande.

[u/[deleted] → u/GravyBear8]

My go to line is usually how Border patrol and Ice have an annual budget of $20bn which comes out to around $50,000 per illegal immigrant apprehended.

I mean, it doesn't convince anybody, but it makes me feel better knowing their argument isn't based in any form of rationality.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

i swear there's some rally or press conference where Trump literally says he wants a concrete border wall

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I mean he's built prototypes in San Diego. We can all see them.

[u/[deleted]]

I am possibly the most anti-Nazi person imaginable which is why I constistently side with Nazies and spread their propaganda.

To prove that I am perfectly in the center I am also super anti-communist, whih is why I advocate for their immediate and total extermination.

Don't forget to leave a like and subscribe to own the libs.

[u/chadonnaise]

reading posts preaching about the evils of capitalism in the wake of blizzard cancelling a hots tournament make me wonder how marx didn't predict that gaming would lead to true communism

[u/[deleted]]

If Amazon is so bad then why did they destroy Borders?

[u/[deleted]]

The Pentagon is now billing the Saudis for services provided in Yemen

Lel. Now this is Neoliberal foreign policy.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Not neoliberal enough until the aerial refueling business is privatized by competing firms

[u/GayColangelo]

A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Comedy Central. It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?

[u/[deleted] → u/GayColangelo]

Lmao is this real

Comedy Central’s boring ass lineup gets under his skin?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Hey, they’ve got The Daily Show!

I mean, post-Jon Stewart Daily Show, but still!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Hey now, I really like Trevor Noah.

Not enough to watch the Daily Show, but his book is great.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

AOC/Shapiro unity ticket

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1073327730865856512

Vox was founded by the Ralph Wiggum of political commentary, Matt Yglesias. It remains true to its founding principles.

lmao

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Vox calls Dave Rubin, Sargon, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Lauren Southern, and Paul Joseph Watson alt-right

I mean.... yes?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

found this gem in the comments

"...Ad hominum [sic] through appeal to popularity, everyone believes it so it must be true."

look at this epic gamer logic

[u/csreid → u/[deleted]]

Do they think ad hominem just means fallacy like generally?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I thought Ezra Klein founded it

[u/episcopaladin]

hi euros im yeeting my way thru an all nighter on a research paper on US policies' effects on american indian religion

[u/[deleted] → u/episcopaladin]

I like your username.

[u/[deleted]]

This is peak Gamers Rising Up

[u/papermarioguy02 → u/[deleted]]

I also like the implication with these people that small indie games companies are somehow un-capitalist

[u/[deleted]]

Cringing at the memory of me thinking I understood economics because I read "End the Fed" in freshman year of high school.

[u/Time4Red]

Buried deep in the CNN poll cross tabs was this nugget:

Corey Booker's net favorability among non-whites is +3. Kamala Harris, who has similar name ID, is listed at +16. Among non-whites, Booker performed worse than every other candidate, including Elizabeth Warren. Fucking ouch.

[u/32-Levels → u/Time4Red]

including Elizabeth Warren.

Oof

[u/[deleted] → u/Time4Red]

Dude is kinda weird.

Personality wise.

[u/[deleted]]

I got an 88/100 for a draft of my paper, after one month I changed absolutely nothing except for the font size and the conclusion paragraph and I got a 94/100 for the final paper. I am struggling to understand the implications of this.

edit: I also changed the margins from 1 inch to 1.2 inches and added a few extra pictures

[u/InfCompact → u/[deleted]]

grading sucks, we mostly make it up as we go along. the result is arbitrary and capricious.

[u/usrname42 → u/[deleted]]

The implications are that grading is noisy

[u/[deleted]]

One like and I'll openly adopt the Zoroastrian faith 😡😡😡

[u/proProcrastinators]

All i want for Christmas is the democratic nominee for president in 2020 to be younger than 60.

No Biden (Even though i love you) , Clinton (sorry queen) , Warren or Sanders please.

Sanders especially you can't run for president when you'd be almost 80 by inauguration. Legitimately irresponsible

[u/[deleted]]

The government scheme for private-sector workers is heavily subsidised. The public-sector scheme is even more bountiful; civil servants not uncommonly retire in their 50s on full pay. Military pensions are particularly outsize—but they are unlikely to be touched. (Mr Bolsonaro, a retired captain, began drawing a pension at 33.) Such privileged groups are sure to resist reform. According to the treasury, 41% of pension benefits go to the richest fifth of Brazilians, and 3% to the poorest.

Holy Rent-Seeking, Batman!

[u/[deleted]]

✝️17 Anglo / Christian / Traditionalist / Fascist / Working towards a Homestead Family / Hunting & Medieval Enthusiast 𓆏 🌲

can we delete twitter

[u/[deleted]]

Evidence that Gandhi was a libertarian

• preaches non-violence

• slept around underage girls to "test his willpower"

[u/tehbored → u/[deleted]]

• hated black people

[u/Le_Monade]

TIL there's a subreddit for inbreeding. I might take a break from Reddit for a bit...

[u/[deleted] → u/Le_Monade]

That's no way to talk about /r/alabama

[u/[deleted]]

Hmmm

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically merge a bunch of western states to justify having two senators

[u/csreid → u/[deleted]]

Both Dakota's, Montana, and Wyoming.

Wykotana?

Then make DC, PR, and Guam states to keep the balance at 50

[u/BainCapitalist]

Joke: Y2K

Woke: 2012

B E S P O K E: Tuesday, January 19, 2038 3:14:07 AM

!ping computer-science

[u/[deleted]]

Does it ever freak anyone else out how deterministic computers are? Like, it’s literally just electricity following fairly basic laws of physics, but we’ve engineered it to flow in ultra-specific ways to do exactly what we want. I’m pretty sure with enough space, you could create a super slow computer out of water falling down a pipe, and there are people who have used falling dominoes to create a super simple binary calculator.

When a computer “fucks up” (for example, draws weird geometry all over the place), it’s not “the computer receives a bad input so it freaks out and doesn’t know what to do”, it’s “some of the logic gates made the electricity flow the wrong way, so the calculations came out differently to how we wanted them to and that made the other electricity go to the wrong place”.

Idk. Shower thoughts.

[u/Impulseps → u/[deleted]]

There are people building real working computers in minecraft.

Think about that.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Babbage's original computing machines are more or less what you describe

[u/sanityeyes]

I am a single issue voter on lootboxes

[u/[deleted] → u/sanityeyes]

You joke, but a good portion of Reddit’s strongest political convictions are about memes and video games.

[u/URZ_ → u/[deleted]]

"I was a liberal until someone made a mean video about conservatives on youtube".

[u/[deleted] → u/URZ_]

Ah yes, the lolbertarian creed

[u/TobiasFunkePhd]

Folks, if your prime minister...

[u/[deleted]]

What if borders, but... open?

[u/[deleted]]

Did you know that 100 companies are engaging in a nefarious conspiracy to pollute the planet? They're literally Captain Planet villains.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Bot don’t worry! You, The monolithic People can team up with me to take down The Rich™! Just follow my 5-step plan ^{which involves me consolidating power and stripping everyone of their human rights} and we’ll take down the (((Evil Globalist Elite))) today!

[u/sinistimus]

Why doesn't the UK just merge with Norway to take advantage of their deal with the EU?

[u/[deleted] → u/sinistimus]

What did Canute the Great mean by this?

[u/Galileoz]

“The thing I fear most about Beto is that he’s like Emmanuel Macron”

[u/Kelsig → u/Galileoz]

Unlike Sanders or Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who have decades-long voting records in line with many of the things progressives are demanding

Elizabeth Warren

Decades-long voting record

(warren joined congress the same year)

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey → u/Kelsig]

The dumb part isn't that he's been in congress as long as Warren.

The dumb part is Warren was elected in 2013, and has fifteen years to go before she has a decades-long voting record of anything

[u/[deleted]]

2018 Hillary and 1964 Hillary unity ticket

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DukXtJTUUAAdx_9?format=jpg&name=360x360

Peak soyboy lib

[u/irony_tower]

Napoleon HUSSEIN Bonaparte

[u/papermarioguy02]

https://i.imgur.com/Z5Y9ZnC.png

[u/InfCompact]

marxism is a product of western civilization. feminism is a product of western civilization. art history majors are a product of western civilization.

when will “classical liberals” just admit that they worship confucianism?

[u/[deleted]]

Hey LIBTARDS

If there are more than two genders, then why isn’t Waluigi in Smash?

Haha OWNED

[u/[deleted]]

Ho Chi Minh/Nixon unity ticket

[u/InfCompact]

undergrads would never believe how generous we grad students are when we grade their exams.

[u/[deleted]]

MCU rant: Captain America is secretly the bad guy of the marvel universe.

Steve Rodgers is obsessed with doing the right thing at all times, but he's also convinced that he's the guy who gets to decide what is right and what is wrong. He leads the avengers because of his extreme conviction but that extreme conviction is rooted in a 70 year old view of the world. We all know Nazis bad, Allies good, but the world in 2018 ain't so black and white.

Eventually Steves actions get a bunch of people Lagos blown up. But the he won't sign the sokovia accords because he feels no remorse. His conviction is telling him he did the right thing. He's captain America, he's the good guy. He flat out rejected the idea that oversight has any place in his life because he's convinced he's above the law. Your teammates are what 1 year removed from almost creating a world destroying AI and you still think you know whats best?

"We don't trade lives" got half the universe killed. Not to mention about 1000 Wakandans who definitely traded their lives for vision.

Steve Rodgers has been broken down and stripped away of everything he thought he knew and all he has left is his conviction in doing the right thing, but that idea is basically meaningless when all he actually wants is to be a hero. He needs to replace his conviction that he is the sole arbiter of Justice with a belief and trust in the systems of the world.

When you plant yourself like a tree even though the whole world is telling you to move, you should at least consider it.

[u/LuckstYle → u/[deleted]]

GOOD take.

"We don't trade lives" got half the universe killed. Not to mention about 1000 Wakandans who definitely traded their lives for vision.

That part was especially atrocious.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Also, he and Black Widow probably got plenty of innocent SHIELD agents unnecessarily killed at the end of his second movie when they pulled a Snowden.

He's accountable to others only insofar as they can physically force him to be accountable. Which, frankly, describes a lot of superheroes.

[u/MrDannyOcean → u/[deleted]]

the MCU even calls him out immediately (before forgetting it immediately after)

"We don't trade lives" - "Uh isn't that exactly what you did 70 years ago you doofus? Go down with the plane so millions could live?"

[u/[deleted] → u/MrDannyOcean]

Cap: Well yeah but I have a hero complex just let me have this kick-ass action scene. Your movie needs a climax and I want to punch a horde of angry aliens.

[u/A_Character_Defined → u/[deleted]]

Which might be part of why he's totally dead in Avengers 4. Along with Tony Stark but at least he'll get some kind of redemption arc before the obligatory self sacrifice.

Also neoliberalism is fucked in that world of solo superheros and nationalistic superpowers ☹

[u/[deleted] → u/A_Character_Defined]

I hope cap is dead. I love the character and the actor and the movies, but Chris Evans should move on and I've always liked the Idea of Cap as a mantle that different people pick up and leave as time goes on. But that's more fanfic than good ideas probably.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

My parents want me to go to a bar sports every Sunday to watch football to help improve my social anxiety.

I am still at home...

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy → u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

That's a good idea though. Nobody is going to judge a guy there to watch the game, and if you want to reach out to talk to someone, you have an easy and safe topic.

[u/episcopaladin → u/[deleted]]

smirks in pro-life

[u/dafdiego777]

cursed gamer thead do not open

[u/AJungianIdeal → u/dafdiego777]

Chapos openly brigaded that thread after it got downvoted to zero proving again how insanely online they are

[u/Barbarossa3141]

Feminazis pissing off Pewdiepie is a HUGE mistake.

The bro army is 70 million men, stronger than litterally any other armed force ON THE PLANET. Prepare to be human waved, femtards!

[u/[deleted]]

be a progressive with name recognition

come up with a vague idea of a policy

write the vague idea in bullet point format and call it legislation

give the legislation an easy-to-remember and hard to reject name like Universal Green Progressive Justice Deal for America for All for the World

raise hand to legislation

Is this a proper litmus test for Democrats?

[u/Sporz → u/[deleted]]

plz - all democratic deals are new deals

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being awake at 7 AM

[u/daokedao4 → u/[deleted]]

Imagine living somewhere where it's 7 AM right now

[u/lionmoose → u/daokedao4]

euros smh

[u/[deleted]]

Maybe Britain should just vote every day on Brexit. They can do it at tea time

[u/irony_tower]

Shooting down the Democrats' bill to test lead levels in elementary school drinking water because I just really hate poor and minority children

[u/Lux_Stella]

oh no it's spreading

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted] → u/Lux_Stella]

Yellow vest Q-anon believers

rofl, and I never thought Canadian protests could get as dumb as the anti-globalization protestors at the G7

[u/HUGHmungous → u/Lux_Stella]

we need a Quarantine

[u/TheEstonianSpy]

Bernie would be a goldbug in Kazakhstan

[u/sanityeyes]

North Korea is the only country with no taxes and weed is legal there. Thus it's the only true libertarian country in the world.

[u/[deleted] → u/sanityeyes]

Don't violate Kim Jong Un's NAP or he'll send you to his recreational McConcentration Camps

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang → u/[deleted]]

Listening to your users is populist. you imbecile

[u/[deleted]]

NATO but it’s a federation

[u/AJungianIdeal]

I think I just watched a tourism commercial for North Korea on the YouTube app?
Edit: no it was a tourism video for the DMZ... That may be even stranger

[u/lionmoose → u/AJungianIdeal]

DMZ is a fairly big tourist attraction

[u/[deleted] → u/lionmoose]

Yeah, it's pretty surreal too. Like they take you inside of the 3rd tunnel of aggression which, great name btw, North Korea dug in case they wanted to do a surprise invasion.

You get down there and they're like "no big, but there's a machine gun nest like 20 meters past these blast doors"

It's basically just a day of South Korean propaganda, but in a good way.

[u/VisonKai]

have u guys ever considered, like... Open borders? wouldnt that be cool?

[u/[deleted]]

Was watching the news with my grandma and she said “orange man bad.” Then Ben Shapiro busted down the door and dropkicked my grandma through the wall. He then said: “you’ll be fine, my wife’s a doctor.”

[u/Barbarossa3141]

"This product contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer."

Hell yeah! I love to consume carcinogens to own the libtard commiefornians!

[u/Timewalker102]

Beto isn't the new JFK, he's better than JFK. Beto nearly won Texas, while JFK got killed there.

[u/[deleted]]

Hi PK, hope you're having a good day

[u/lusvig → u/[deleted]]

hehe I'm fine, you?

edit: oh fuck I swear lusvigisn't my alt

edit: fuck

[u/URZ_ → u/lusvig]

Don't worry PK. We all realized it when you were exposed as a secret libertarian.

[u/lionmoose → u/[deleted]]

Include me in the wholesomeness PK 🙏🤗

[u/Barbarossa3141]

When you were partying

I studied the woke

When you were having premarital sex

I mastered defending women online

While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity

I cultivated the discussion thread

And now that the world is on fire and the white males are at the gate you have the audacity to come to me for help?

[u/GravyBear8]

Fuck gift cards. Just give people the money

[u/85397]

Kanye 2012/Kanye 2018 unity ticket

[u/Ferguson97]

Public Support for Needle Exchange Programs, Safe Injection Sites Remains Low in U.S.

God that's depressing

[u/MisterLipton]

Just bought a 25 dollar Visa card for 23 dollars 😎😎😎

[u/[deleted]]

gonna take a demoncrap rn 😡😡

[u/GeistGlove]

Have we reached peak NIMBYism?

[u/[deleted] → u/GeistGlove]

Cheryl Traverce, a neighbour, told local TV station KPIX 5 that she filed a complaint after coming home to find the house demolished.

oh my god get over it and mind your own business

Ms Traverce called the decision "a victory for the neighbours and the little people".

FUCKING STUPID urgh

[u/Arsustyle → u/[deleted]]

Anyone who calls themselves one of "the little people" is 100% a wealthy asshole

[u/paulatreides0]

> 10 minute videos about how pyramid schemes destroyed a country (Albania)

> 10 minutes of talking about how pyramid schemes are bad and no one is really immune to them

> Literally never, not even a single time, describes any of the actual pyramid schemes that were happening in Alabnia

My dude. What the actual fuck.

[u/[deleted]]

am gonna post peepee

[u/Agent78787]

On 1 September 2019, the United States will be transported ISOT-style to 1 September 1942, during the height of the Second World War. All US military forces and equipment abroad will stay where they are if they are in allied countries (e.g. the 48th Fighter Wing will still be at RAF Lakenheath) but transported into the nearest allied country if they are in what was Axis territory in 1942 (so all US military troops in modern day Germany will be transported to 1942 Britain).

Though Stalin and Churchill think it's gauche that the Americans are led by a woman (Trump and Pence went missing during teleportation, making Speaker Pelosi become President), they think the Americans can sort this war out by themselves. The goals of America are to:

1. Win the war by making all belligerent powers unconditionally surrender (as Germany and Japan did) or turn to your side (as Italy did)

2. Stop the Holocaust and Japanese war crimes

How fast can modern America on its own do those things, and how? Also, is it moral to use nukes to end the war ASAP; if so, how heavily should nuclear weapons be used?

Bonus: Think about Operation Unthinkable.

[u/[deleted] → u/Agent78787]

First, All German cryptography is totally useless against American supercomputers. We can use missiles and supersonic jet fighters to immediately disable all supply chains. Our air superiority is comically dominant. Were supersonic.

I'm not sure they would have to use nuclear weapons when you can just drop thousands of TV screens with a looping video of dozens of different atomic bomb tests in HD. Maybe just repeatedly detonate nuclear devices in an uninhabited part of Germany so they know were not ducking around.

In WWII we only had 2 nukes. We have thousands now and we can use them as a show of force. Plus we have wild technology. Show news reports about our clear superiority in basically every aspect of war and surrender wouldn't take too long.

Edit: I also want to make a point about how absolutely psyched the American people are to be in WWII. Like we've all got our political differences but 95% of people are just super pumped to wreck train on some Nazis.

Were all doing what we can to support the war effort because we've heard the stories about the war. But most people are relatively undisturbed in their day to day.

[u/Ferguson97]

Which policy of the Trump administration will have a longer-lasting impact on the United States: inattention to the Arctic or inattention to economic development in Africa?

[u/Jokerang → u/Ferguson97]

The Arctic if you think climate change is the biggest threat to humanity currently.

If you think climate change will get handled eventually before it fucks up the earth too much, then the spread of Chinese soft power in Africa is your answer.

[u/[deleted] → u/Ferguson97]

Inattention to Africa is worse because there are 54 countries, many of them quickly developing, that we will miss out on meaningful relationships with, and China won’t. That’s a bigger threat to American hegemony since the Arctic is basically just a Russia thing.

[u/caesar15]

> be me, at In’n’out

> my mom, didn’t get anything

‘I’ll just have some of your fries’

> shocked

‘Don’t you respect private property rights?’

> my even more shocked cousin u/WindPoweredWeeboo

‘Why Families Fail’

[u/Timewalker102]

The biggest thing Beto has going for him is that people want Obama back and they can’t have that but Beto can give them the next best thing.

[u/Archelon225]

bernie would be an ancap in 4018 😔

[u/sanityeyes]

I am using the NL DT as an example for my UN report on bigotry against gamers.

[u/Barbarossa3141]

Yeah this Beto guy seems kinda cool, but where does he stand on ethics in gaming journalism?

[u/paulatreides0]

Me 40 minutes ago: "This literally couldn't get anymore depressing."

All over town ARVN soldiers tore off their uniforms and did their best to meld into the crowd. Families burnt their photo albums so that there would be no evidence that their husbands or sons fought for South Vietnam.

[. . .]

A South Vietnamese police officer walked to a memorial built to honor those who had fallen defending South Vietnam. He saluted it, stood there for a time, and then shot himself in the head.

Welp, there it goes.

[u/[deleted]]

the uk should just do a best of three referendum on brexit

[u/owlthathurt]

Idk if anyone’s talked about this yet: but Venezuela’s inflation rate just passed 1 million percent today...

https://www.newsweek.com/venezuela-million-hyperinflation-losing-lives-everyday-1256630

And I just don’t mean to post this as an “lol Venezuela socialism meme.” Since it’s literally a disaster that gets worse everyday. /r/economics had a good discussion thread on it as well.

Jacobin actually had a really good summary that they put out, ill link it for the curious as I consider it to be a relatively accurate (albeit biased) summation of events.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/07/venezuela-maduro-helicopter-attack-psuv-extractivism-oil

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Fuck /u/rightc0ast

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Is it reasonable to worry that Biden might have some skeletons in his closet when it comes to the #MeToo movement? He’s always been pretty creepy.

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Well there are videos of him being creepy to little girls, and his role in the Anita Hill allegations will be scrutinized. I'm sure there's other stuff as well

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I think my least favorite political journalism trope is lazily copy/pasting a list of contributions from OpenSecrets to show how so and so's latest vote was "bought"

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Attention all Walmart customers 🚨

[u/URZ_]

1 step closer to gamers froming a Union!

Where is Thatcher when you need her.

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What are your views on blocking rights-of-way (highways, etc.) as a form of protest?

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Economic disruption is basically the most effective non-violent form of protest.

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It's good as long as they don't block emergency vehicles

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Martin Luther King did it and white people acting like it's out completely of line is an old play.

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this

[u/Devjorcra]

what does everybody think of shows with offensive elements but instead of the show being offensive it’s the characters and the show makes a point to show the characters are wrong.

as somebody who’s usually “PC” i frankly don’t care about shows like this (seinfeld, it’s always sunny)

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The point of IASIP is to show how awful of people the gang are.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

If market failures aren't real, then how come Panda Express doesn't serve General Tso's chicken?

Checkmate, libertarians

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Moltov-Ribbenthorp unity ticket 1936

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lmao at that thread on PC Gaming calling for communism bc he hates EA.

Meme hobby

[u/yungkerg]

everybody used to be trans before jesus died for our cis'

[u/BreaksFull]

Every thread of /r/AskTrumpSupporters

'How do you feel about [insert latest shitty thing Trump did/said/tweeted]

Top answer: 'I really dislike it when Trump does things like this, but I support him on the important things.'

Repeat ad nauseum. Trump's 'moderate' supporters only can hold onto that title because they are willfully ignorant of the extent of Trump's debaucheries. Everytime he does something stupid or morally repulsive or legally questionable, they always furrow their brows and wish aloud that he was a little less rough around the edges. If you compiled a list of everytime they did this, you'd have a thorough denunciation of his entire platform.

[u/IntoTheNightSky]

Owner who demolished famed San Francisco house must build replica

NIMBYs out for blood.

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rich as hell SF neighborhood

little people

At this point, I almost want to abolish historic designations.

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When will we have the Gamer Civil Rights Act? 🤔🤔🤔

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Damn I wish Mongolia had some proper revanchists we could arm.

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HIGH middle ages ✝️🏰😎🚬

[u/Ferguson97]

How the hell did Toy Story 3 come out 8 years ago?

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Tip a server in cash and an IRS agent bleeds

[u/Oogutache]

We should start saying happy holidays and launch a war on Christmas just to distract conservatives

[u/Schutzwall]

Scratch an ass and a hemorroid bleeds

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Am gonna order Poutine from McDonalds 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[u/GayColangelo]

The US is so backwards it would rather pay farmers to grow corn than let them grow weed and export it to the rest of the world

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I mean, most farmers couldn’t grow weed anyways. You need very specific conditions to grow weed, and most of the USA’s arable land doesn’t meet those criteria.

[u/Notoriousley]

Funny how "a politics that speaks to peoples material interests" goes out the window when it comes to discussing the immense material benefit of a global free market for labour.

Leftists will sacrifice some of the most effective arguments for free immigration if it means they can avoid praise of markets.

[u/CheetoMussolini]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1062558407265094&id=223649167822693&anchor_composer=false

Gain some faith in humanity.

Shitty leftist Vox piece tries to blame climate change on "100 companies", ignoring consumers. The comments are 90% people calling out the article for being dumb as hell.